Wonderware inTouch – Configuration of IO Drivers

Driver for S7: DASSiDirect

DASSiDirect is the driver used to communicate with Siemens S7 300-400 PLCs. The IO server must be
configured directly on DASSiDirect application.

1. Start “ArchestrA System Management Control”

2. Open the tree diagram till the situation is similar to the following

3. Right click on “ArchestrA.DASSIDirect.1”

4. Create the new devices, right clicking on the last entity, until the following situation is
reached:

5. Fill the PLC parameters with the correct ones

6. Click on “Device Groups” tab.
7. Insert all the active PLC topics: their names can be retraced in inTouch Maker
8. Repeat the above operations 3-7 for all the necessary PLCs
S5TI500 Driver Configuration
S5TI500 is the driver used to communicate with Siemens S5 PLC. The driver is configured on the S5TI500
application:

Follow these steps for the configuration:

1. Start the driver from the “Start > All Programs” Windows menù.
2. It is necessary that the driver starts before inTouch application and that it remains active
during supervision service: to do this go in “Configure > Settings” and activate the “Run
as a windows service” option.
3. Define the adapter card, using “Simatic menu > Configurator Console”:

4. Select “CP_H1_1:” and choose for this access point the adapter card with “(Auto)”
option.
5. After this operation open PG/PC interface from SIMATIC menu to verify that the
selected application access point is correct. If it is not, select the right one:
6. In S5TI500 driver window, select “Configure > Adapter Card Setting”:

7. To insert the right Adapter Card press “Automatic” button, select “CP_H1_1:” and then
press “Add” button. If nothing appears close and open again the “Adapter Card
Settings” window.
8. Insert the adapter card settings and add the desired topics through “Configure > Topic
Definition”
 9. Press the “New…” button to add a new Topic:
10.

11. Complete this window with topic name (retracable in inTouch Maker), MAC or IP
address and TSAP. At last select “CP_H1_1:” in the “NetBIOS Adapter Card” field

When communication is started in the driver main window will appear the list of all topics along with their
communication status, number of read items, errors and write statuses.
Driver for RSLogix: DASABCIP
DASABCIP is the driver used to communicate with RSLogix PLCs. The IO server must be configured directly
on DASABCIP application.

1. Start “ArchestrA System Management Control”

2. Open the tree diagram till the situation is similar to the following
3. Right click on “ArchestrA.DASABCIP.4”
4. Create the new devices, right clicking on the last entity
5. Fill the PLC parameters with the correct ones
6. Click on “Device Groups” tab.

7. Insert all the active PLC topics: their names can be retraced in inTouch Maker
8. Repeat the above operations 3-7 for all the necessary PLCs
Driver for Mitsubishi: DASMTEthernet
DASMTEthernet is the driver used to communicate with Mitsubishi PLCs. The IO server must be configured
directly on DASMTEthernet application.

1. Start “ArchestrA System Management Control”

2. Open the tree diagram till the situation is similar to the following

3. Right click on “ArchestrA. DASMTEthernet.1”

4. Create the new devices, right clicking on the last entity, until the following situation is
reached:

5. Fill the PLC parameters with the correct ones

6. Click on “Device Groups” tab.
7. Insert all the active PLC topics: their names can be retraced in inTouch Maker
8. Repeat the above operations 3-7 for all the necessary PLCs
Installation and Configuration of OPC Server Driver

1. Install FSGateway driver from inTouch CD and configure it on SMC

2. On Group Parameters, press Browse OPC Items
3. RightClicking on any item and selecting “Item properties” you should see the values (this is just for
test), Then select the variables you need in inTouch and drag them on the Basket below
4. Now the necessary items are listed in Device Items table. Here you can define an Item Reference
for each value (usually just a shorter name): this is not necessary, anyway.
5. Now go in inTouch, create a new Access Name. As TopicName use the same defined in SMC (in field
“device group name”, picture 2).
6. Now for each item you need to read/write from OPC, create a new tag. Use the correct
AccessName (just created) and the correct item (tag address: use the one you see in SMC, picture
4).
7. Now you should have all the needed tags, and you can read and/or write them. For the Celox, you
should add a script to write the new measures to PLC when a new sample/temperature arrives.
Add this script:

Here, only the master HMI, when the variable that identifies the measure status
(.._TP_MEAS_STAT) indicates that a new measure is arrived(status: 4), all values are transferred to
PLC.
The function is a DataChangeScript, so it is called every time the MEAS_STAT variable values
changes.